Recent studies suggest that current approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. This book … brings together a discussion of childhoods, children's experiences of poverty and development discourses, and case studies to …

amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …

dimensions of severe child poverty in 67 middle- and low-income countries. It also analyzes how certain institutional conditions …, namely the quality of government (QoG), have moderating effects on the relationship between disasters and child poverty. Two … main hypotheses are tested. The first is that disasters do have an adverse average effect on severe poverty. The second is …

Modern bioenergy is a core ingredient of sustainable economic development as it plays an important role in poverty … stimulate modern bioenergy innovation in order to achieve multiple-win outcomes in terms of poverty alleviation, improved health …

Economic growth is essential, though not sufficient, for poverty reduction in developing countries. Research based on … contribute to economic growth, and thus can help many poor people escape poverty. However, the domestic environment has to be … conducive to realizing the poverty-reduction benefits of increased trade. Complementary domestic policies and institutions …